This just holds up so well. Feels like the last time you could have a movie full of spies (or ex-spies) that were just guys. Not professional sprinters, not parkour specialists, not models with Marvel-level six packs. Just guys. Guys with skills that come from experience, not being raised in a secret government programme. Guys that are just here to do a job.
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After the Rain 1999
I realise that I have accidentally watched this on the anniversary of Kurosawa's birth, very fitting for the first movie to be produced from one of his scripts after he died. It was directed by his longstanding Assistant Director, and features many cast members from his latter films, and of course many of the things that Kurosawa was obsessed with over his career - not least an awful lot of rain.
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Punch-Drunk Love 2002
I've seen this before, and I've always loved it, but I'm doing some research at the moment about autism in the movies and this film kept coming up - I had to watch it straight away, it had never occurred to me, but once seen I couldn't un-see it. Barry Egan has Asperger's.
The fixation on details and rules, the awkwardness in social situations, not knowing how to engage in physical contact appropriately, the violent meltdowns, the literal interpretation of…Translated from by -
August Underground's Mordum 2003
I spent much of my teenage years (and beyond) watching horror movies, starting with the standard stuff from the local video shop years before I was meant to be seeing it, on to getting hold of NTSC copies of the then still-banned-in-the-uk classics like The Exorcist and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Then DVD came along and multiregion players and internet ordering and pretty much anything was available and I enjoyed extreme cinema from around the world, but even now as…
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